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We are at the beginning of a new month (right after seeing the Greek busting our party yesterday!) so it is now time for the TSX 60 ex-dividend date, dividend yield and dividend payout ratio. In addition to provide the TSX chart, I wanted to add a few random thoughts on those Canadian dividend stocks: Canadian Gold Stocks Might Follow Newmont (NEW) and its Dividend Strategy While price of gold has been sky rocketing since 2008, we can tell the same thing about Canadian gold stocks. In …

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  If it’s your first time here, I suggest that you get your copy of my Free Dividend eBook and subscribe for my newsletter.   Each quarter, I review the US dividend world to see what has happened of late. While we are stuck in a bear market and fear is growing like clouds before the storm around the Euro zone, the sun is rising on dividend stocks! Globally, we have 16% of stocks increasing their dividend for Q3. I’ve looked deeper into each sector and found 9 dividend stocks …

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The Eternal Question: To Pay or Not To Pay Fees? This is basically what Paul asked on How I Beat The Market With My Trades. He mentioned that he owns shares of the popular BMO Monthly Income Fund. While I’ve already analyzed this fund, I wanted to add more thoughts on why you should or shouldn’t buy indexes or mutual funds instead of trading your own stocks.   I’ll tell you upfront, I think that investing in dividend stocks, ETFs and mutual funds are all great investing …

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Here we go with another round of the TSX60 ex-dividend date and dividend yield. Please note that YLO is not part of the index anymore with NO DIVIDEND whatsoever ! On the other side, we find now 24 great dividend stocks paying over a 3% dividend yield and 12 of them as a dividend payout ratio under 65%! I don't know about you, but this tells me that some dividend stocks from the TSX 60 are undervalued! Finally, I would be worried to hold the first 2 positions (Enerplus & Penn …

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Last week, we launched the Dividend Growth Index, a dividend stock index created by a few bloggers. On a quarterly basis, each blogger will follow their stocks and may also comment on the portfolio as a whole. Since we just launched the index, I won’t be discussing the results after this first week but will rather talk about my 3 picks: Intel (INTC), Coca-Cola (KO) and National Bank (TSE:NA). These 3 stocks together pays a 3.80% dividend yield and are known for their dividend growth over time. …

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